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Alternative response teams are being asked to tackle vexing problems: mental illness, homelessness, addiction. How much can they actually do? We ex...
- Added: Aug 06, 2024
- Length: 37:34
A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing — in the courts, on the campaign trail, at the ballot box this N...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 1
What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 29:30
This week’s episode begins to explore the intersections of borders, documentation, and incarceration. We look at the history of U.S. immigration po...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 29:11
- Purchases: 1
Meet LePriest Valentine, who kept winding up in the only sanctuary he could find after getting out of jail: Skid Row.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 4
In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Mar 29, 2016
- Length: 14:59
- Purchases: 1
KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 06:44
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Among the leading causes of homelessness in single adults is mental illness. Study after study reiterates that up to a quarter of all those sufferi...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 1
Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and other revolutionary movements across the world, the Occupy Wall Street movement has just entere...
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 24:26
The Montana Supreme Court will weigh in on physician assisted suicide.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 02, 2009
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
Death penalty cases are extremely complex and costly to pursue.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: 06:41